"Oh nothing much really he just brought Eleanor over with the kids. You know she's about eight months pregnant and she's going to pop any minute now. You should see her now she could double for a baby elephant in weight. She even asked of you. I-"
You don't say…" I say to my mother
"Oh yes and your father had gone all for it. He had ordered cakes, gotten catering even baloons! Like what would a grown adult man over the age of thirty need baloons for? The only thing that he had not done was get a venue and that was because Conrad had strongly advised him against it."
On my birthday, all I had ever received from my father was a two worded text saying "Happy birthday", no calls, no texts nothing but I think that sharing that tid bit of information would not dwell kindly with my mother so I do not divulge it.
I do not need another family warfare on my hands…
"It was honestly a lot of fun and the only thing that would have made it even better was if you had equally showed up." My mother said the disdain as clear as day in her voice.
"Oh come on Mom please don't start. You promised. I thought that we were already far past this."
"I don't remember making any sort of promises."
"Mom please."_
"Hmmmph… fine but it would have still been amazing if you had come though. Who knew you could have brought over that foxy redhead that you had shown me her picture some time last month."
I grimace at the thought of recent exrelationship prospect Sandy. I had met her online on a friend's recommendation. I had at first been hesitant on going out with someone I had no physical contact with but on the date she and I had instantly clicked. We were so close and basically did everything together when all of a sudden on the night that I had proposed to her to be my girlfriend she had instead broken up a relationship with me for reasons that she claimed were best know to her and disappeared shortly after. I had tried to keep in contact with her in hopes of reviving what we had once had but all to no avail. It was as though she had become a ghost..like she had never existed. I realize now that in the height of my feelings I must have shown my mother some of her pictures and I'm pretty sure that by now she had probably browsed up on everything there was to know about Sandy and was just waiting for a formal introduction on my part.
"Yeah mom about that…. we uhm didn't exactly work out." 
"Oh my good sweetie I am so sorry to hear about that. What happened?"
"Uhm she and I apparently wanted different things. So we split up."
"Oh…did she say what the problem was? Maybe you guys could fix it?" My mom asks the concern now palpable in her voice.
"Just the usual ''it's not you it's me' spiel that people tend to use. She did not even give me a chance to fix things."
"I'm really sorry son. Don't worry you'll find someone that will acknowledge your importance and that is truly worth worthy of you and not some escape skete that doesn't exactly know what to do with her life."
"Mom…" I drawl out. "She had made her choice and it's her loss, there is no need for insults."
"Oh but there is a need how dare she hurt my baby boy?" She said angrily
"Baby?" I say to her laughing at the laced venom in her words. "Mom I am in my early thirties. I am not a baby anymore."
"Hmmmph nonsense! You always remain my baby no matter how old you are. I remember the day I had brought you back from the hospital. You had the sweetest smile that made all the nurses swoon. Not to mention you had gotten-"
I let out an audible groan "Mom please I beg you not this story again." 
My mother pays me no heed and ventures forwards "-Your dad in serious trouble because he had ran over stop lights just so that he could get us to the hospital in one piece. I had almost thought that we were not going to make it but by some miracle you-"
"Oh why…uhm would you look at that mom." I say interrupting her. "There is another person on the line. I guess I will have to hang up now."
"Jamarcus don't you dare hang up on m-"
"Bye mom. Please always remember to take your meds and remember, I love you." I tell her and hang up the phone.
                              ****
I step out of my shower feeling youth and rejuvenated than I have ever been in this past few weeks. My previous tiredness is no where to be found as I bend over my bed to raise a towel I had placed there earlier to my hair to dry it.
I am going to take advantage of the weekend and sit back and rewind.
I quickly get myself dressed and head into the kitchen in search of something to eat. I open the cupboard to get some cereal but I am shocked to see that there was nothing present. I guess that i must have run out this past week but I had not noticed as I had been too preoccupied with work.
Heaving a sigh I turn around to face my table top stove in the corner of the room with slight annoyance. Not that it was broken or anything but because I had little to no cooking experience hence it had no use for me.
Now I will have to go eat out and get some groceries while I'm at it. This totally hinders the sleep in day that I had originally planned for myself but I guess I have no one other than myself for this.
I leave the kitchen and walk into the living room to get my jacket that I had left on the coat rack before exiting my apartment.